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MAILS. AlRlvEn—t Dublin. DUE—I Gottenburgh, r Malta, 3 Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THY& BA Y AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols THE SUN. SOLI , NI QUIS DICEaI lALSUM.AUDLAT L 0 N D ON', SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1 9, 180 S. Government have received accounts from Portu gal, which direalicontradiet the Reports which have been so industriously circulated in this Country, of dlfferences subsisting between the different Pro. vinces, and of disturbances in that Country. 'We can assure our Readers that the most perfea tran quility prevails in Portugal, and that . the utmost h4rrnony exists between the Portuguese Govern ment and the British Commanders. THE Public Prints which took so a&ive a part in discussing the policy Of the Convention of Cintra, or rather in condemning it in the bitterest terms, bcfore it was possible to form any judgment on the sebjea, are now as a6live in throwing upon each other the odium of having attacked the persons who were concerned in framing that Convention. For • this purpose, some of these Prints are taking ex tra&s from others; in order to demonstrate the gross i 'justice and rancorous personality of their competi tom It is, however, very probable that the Public Prints, thus condemned by their own words, might retort the charge with equal truth, and cite passages from their respective opponents, fully as strong as those which have been revived against themselves. We o , all leave the several combatants to fight their own battles, and persevere in the course which we have uniformly adopted, of wai'titig the result of that Inquiry which has been committed to men fully competent to decide, and whose determination must necessarily be characterized by the most scrupulous regard to justice and to truth. We maybe assured that no unnecessary- delay -will take place in thein vestigation ; and howevar disappointed the hopes and expeaations of the people may have been, no man who has the least regard to justice and to, truth, and who has a - due sense of the na tional charaaer, would wish to precipitate mea sures. As .to the competency of the Tribunal which has been instituted . for . this examination, Snd which has given so much occasion for the c:linnors of party, we believe it can only be doubt ed by those who are apprehensive of the event. We have before observed, that a Court of Inquiry has a greater latitede than a Court Martial, and it, under the comprehensive range'of the former, any 'circumstances should appear that will warrant a Court-Martial, the Piaklic know that a Court- Martial will be the inevitable result. We are the more, disposed to approve of the previous investigation of the Court of Inquiry, because there will be nothing concealed. Sir HEW DAL LYmPLE expressly said, that he was glad his condua would be tried by such a Court, because he was sure that he should have an ample opportunity of bring ing forward every thing that might be necessary to stew his condua in 'the fullesi light. We shall, therefore, maintain the same spirit of candour and consistency which we have before adopted, and whic!) we have abundant reason to believe has been s iisfaaory to our Readers, in attending patiently the progress of Inquiry, and not giving way to cen mtt till we can do so upon the clearest, fullest, and most substantial grounds, Such conduEt is diaated by reason, and by every feeling honourable to the human heart. A condua of a different kind must proceed from some narrow, selfish, personal conside rations, or must be direaed by that party-spirit which has unhappily been too manifest in all the discus &aim which have hitherto taken place on this inte r-sting subject, which obviously accompanies the ! progress of the investigation, and which is likely to attend the result, however satisfaCtory that result may be to the ends Qf justice, and conformable to the opinion of all honest and impartial men. Dr. Mit.Nea has.at length published his eiplana, ti o n respeaing the proposition made in the name of the C3tholics, in the last Session of Parliament. We shall take the earliest opportuOity of submitting to our Readers son observations,npon it. Thursday morning 114 NIAJOTY, Princesses So -7 ILA, AuGuTA, and Ardwik, accompanied by Lord \V ALSINGHAM, Lady CRANLEY, General FITZROY, Colonel TAYLOR, took their us'ial rides in the Part at Windsor, and returned at twvive o'clock to thy Palace. The Prince of WALES left Windsor on Thursday afternoon, ror London, .and will return this day to wico or. , The Duchess of YoRK let Windsor on Thursday afternoon, for Outlands. Yesterday at:ternoon the Duke of MONTROBW, ))aster of Horse, arrived at, Windsor, and atter oi!ing pu MAJESTY, went to his Majesty's stables, accompanied by General FITZROY, &c. to 41:Tea the .11prses, cp4iaties, stables, OOVRT OP EVQ11.111Y: THIRD ,DAY. Chelsea, Yov. lg. The doors were not opened till eleven o'clock.--- A considerable crowd had consequently collected by that tirne, and a great rush took place on opening the doors. The Court took their seats in a few minutes after the opening of the doors. Sir HEW DALRYMPLE and Sir ARTHUR WELLES* LEY were present as on the preceding day, as were also the Dukes of CAMBRIDGE, CUMBERLAND, Lord KINNAIRD, and several Officers. The business commenced by Sir A. WALLESLEY Stating his wish to deliver in a paper confirmatory of his statement on the preceding day. Sir AR THUR read the paper, which stated in substance the same as his declaration on Thursday, that he was not ordered, much less compelled, to sign the Armistice—that no authority was given by him or any of his relations or friends, to any of the pub lishers of Newspapers, to make a contrary state-. ment. He also repeated that he agreed in the prin ciples of permitting the French to evacuate Portu gal, aanly differing with the Commander in Chief respecting some points of detail. The Paper containing this statement was delivered by Sir ARTHUR to the President. Sir ARTHUR also expressed his regret that an expression in one of his Letters read on Thursday, should have gone forth to the Public, as convey ing a refection upon the Commissariat employed in the Army in Portugal. He never meant to state that the individuals employed in the Com missariat were wanting in zeal or deficient in exer tion—his only object was to spew generally the ex pediency of making some alteration in the mode of conduaiu►g the Commissariat Department. A Paper containing this statement was also deli vered by Sir,AaTnil it to the President. The JUDGE SATE then read some dispatches from Sir HEW DAGitYMPLE to Lord CAiTLEREAGH, one dated the 3d of September, which was publish ed in the Gazette; others stating, that the Terms , . of the Armistice had been c ommun i cate d to the Por. tuguese General, but who had not objeCted to them until after the conclusion of the Negociation, and the Convention had been signed. A Lgtter in French, from the Portuguese General, objeCting to the Terms of the Convention, and an answer from Sir HEW DALE YZ.I.PL 2, stating, that the good faith of the Country was pledged to carry these con ditions into eft - ea. Some other letters were also read, relating to points of detail. The JUDGE-ADVOCATE having. finished reading these official dispatches, another person commenced reading, in a very low tone of voice, a series of cor respondence relating to several minor details con neeted with the army of Portugal. S - OFFICE, TWO O ' CLOCK, P. M. We stop the Press to add the following particulars to our detail of the proceedings of the Court of In quiry this day : A variety of Documents were read, written by Sir HEW DALRYMPLE and General FREIRE, principally relating to the plunder which the French had em barked. In one of these Letters, Sir HEW DALRYMPOE expresses his surprize that,so large a sum as 40,000'. mentioned in the Protest,. should have been carried off, and declares his intention of ordoring restitu- ion. Then followed a Proclamation signed by General FREIRE, against the Convention. It states, that there. could not have been a measure entered into more fa vourable to the French, or more hurtful to t because of Europe; that the English army was to be considered in no other light than as auxiliiry to the Portuguese ; that the stipulations therein contained were such as never could be agreed to, unless it were that Portugal was a conquered Country. It concludes with protesting strongly against the conditions of the Treaty. The Court was left sitting when our Paper was put :o Press. The force which BUONAPARTE will hase to contend with, and the greater,part of which he must over.; w helm before he can accomplish his boast of ".crown ing the King of SPAIN at Madrid,". is thus stationed. The united armies of CAiTA - NOS and ..PALA'yox haiie taken a position on the left wing of • the French ; BLAKE is stationed.on their right; and their front _will be opposed by the British army under Gen. MOORE ) estimated at upwards of 30,000 men, and the arm)- Of Fat rernadura, consisting of 23,000 men. This, army, upon which the proteetion of Madrid mill principally depend, will amount at least to hetween 50 and 60,000 men. The army of BLimE, or the Marquis DE LA BouckrA. rather, for .the former gallant Officer has probably been stiperseded in his command, is estimated at 3.5,000 Nen ; that of.C4s- TANGS and- PAWOX May be about 20,000 more. Upon the whole, the force opposed to the French may be fairly taken at near 140,000 men (including . the Bii:ish), of which considerably -mOre . . than oue-half tire regular wl4-..diriciplined i.rOons. NAVAL NEWS. GREENOCK, Nov. 16.—Arrived here on Monday night the St. Andrew, RITCEILE (a running ship), from Trinidad, after a passage of nine weeks.— Sailed fi'om thence in company with the General Stewart Cutter, MURRAY Master; bound for Fal mouth. On the 15th September, Grenada bearing north, distant about six or seven leagues, saw a strange Sail in chase of them, which they soon after discovered to be a French Lugger' Privateer, of 10 car guns, and full of men. Early on the morning of the 16th the St. Andrew shortened sail for the General Stewart (the Privateer still continuing in chase), and commenced firing her stern chasers at the enemy. There being little wind at the time, and the Pri vateer, from using her sweeps, coming up fast, and it appearing to Captain R. from her manner of ma noeuvring, that she was resolved to capture the Gene ral Stewart, he, for the purpose of preventing this, determined to engage her, and an thion shortly after commenced at half-musket shot, which lasted for ' upwards of an hour, when, notwithstanding the ut most exertions of Capt. R. and his .gallant crew, the Privateer succeeded in boarding and capturing the General Stewart, a little after which the Priva teer and the Cutter hove to, and the firing ceased. Capt..R. now employed his time ,in filling car , (ridges, and ' repairing some guns that were clisa• mounted during the anion, expeeting, from per ceiving a number of men on board the Cutter, to be attacked by both during the night ; but at day light of the 17th the Privateer and the - CUtter were. nearly out of sight, bearing west. None of the crew of the St. Andrew, we are happy to state, were hurt, though the enemy, during the a6tion, kept up -au incessant fire of great guns and fire-arms. The enemy must have suffered severely. Capt. R. speaks in terms of the highest corn inenddtion of the steadiness' and gallantry displayed .by his little crew, consisting of 24 men. The St. Andrew spoke on the 18th Sept. in lat. 13. 56. N. t he Marg./inn, DICKY, from Port Glasgow to Trin 'dad : on the 22d in lat. 16. 33. N. saw the Privateer and the General Stewart in company, to the West ward, standing to the Southward : on the 3d O. 23. 31. N. spoke the Fanie Letter of Marque, from Quebec for Jamaica ; and on the 3d Nov. in lat. 54. 25. N. spoke the Paragon, MILLER, from this - Port for Demerara, the Captain of this Ship in forMed Capt. itICHIS that be parted with the Neriede, Jou STO NI, and Irmelinda, MARGO./ Is, off the Ctimbrae Heads, in a `fog : on the.slll inst. •in . ' 55. 46. saw *two strange .Sail in the. Westward, which Capt. Rictus supposed to be the Neriede and the Irinelinda. The St. Andrew left. the following Vessels loading at Trinidad, viz. Elizabeth, BAIRD, for this Port ; and the Clarence, and Brookes, -, for Liverpool. • • The Royal Charlotte, Mortnia, arrived here on Monday night, from New Providence, in 35 days. On the 25th O&ober, in lat. 39. long. 64. spoke the Brigantine Rolla, Capt. Taompspt.r, from Jamaica, bound to London, ail well. November 6, spoke the Brigantine Seron, Captain SHILLESER, from Labrador, in lat. 56. long. 20. bound to Liverpool, under jury masts, having, on the 26th O&ober, ex perienced a gale from the Westward, in which she was dismasted, and lost, two men. November 11, spoke, off Tarry, the Brigantine Hope, from Pittou, bound to Liverpool. November 12, spoke, off Tor ry, the Brigantine 'la - jut', from Pielon, bound to Ayr. Same day, spoke the Brigantine Commerce, DENNISTON, from hence, for Honduras, all well. The John, DRYSDALE, from Clyde to Heligo land, struck on a rock near that island on the 26th ult. and was deserted by the crew. She-soon after wards drifted off, and floated to sea. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 18.—Arrived His Majesty's Ships Isis from Newfoundland, Mallon from A eruize, and the Diomede from Guernsey. DEAL, Nov. 18.—We have experienced a heavy gale of wind the ‘..01e of this day, and am fearftil shall hear of some of the shipping in the Downs having sustained damage. The Ouizer, HALLET, for Rio, parted from her cables about t 0 P. M.; and a Transport, lately arrived from the Mediterranean, parted about the same time : they have both got into Ramsgate Harbour. About. r o'clock, tb4 Brig Neutrality, M`DONALD, horn Malaga, pat red, and went. op. shore near Ram3gate Peir. Sailed this - morning, a Portuguese Schooner, for the River. DISTRIBUTjON V r PRIZt-MONEY. To the East India Ship Lord ll;wkesbury, for the cap . . ture of scve . ral Dutch Snips, oil the Island of St. Helena, by . Capt. Lssitigton's Synadron, at No. z, New City chain-- hers, en the Mrh November, and the last Thursday in every for tilice years. To the Slop Itosarnohd, for the capture of the A rnstillancl, on.board the said S'oop, at Yarnionta, onahe asst inst. and at No; 13, Clement's tun, every Monday and Thursday 6r . three 11111111 S: • To the Cambrian, for the capture of the' Brig I lappy c„„ r d e , a t ti lt; o tficeof Messrs. Atkins, A usiia Friars, every Tueskt.ty ann Thursday, tor three inontll4. "Vo the Sloop Trompeuse, tOr the ca a iture'of the Prtissia t n Augu.ttria Cacolina, at th e °thee of Messrs. 4 1 ..t0tti4 k pot' s,cy ry 4' 4e4dpy aptiT 4iq .i54;4y tut qa4..e months. • " BUON/IPAI?TE's EXPOSITION. Though, as we before observed, RocgAriatTbili annual Exposition of the State of France contains very little novel or interesting, it is entitled to sonic notice, on account of the quarter from which 4 issues, and the delusions which it holds forth. Til e Usurper speaks of the independence of the com merce of France, which he says disquiets this Coto' try, though, in the sequel, he admits that politicg events have been unfavourable to it. The truth is, that the vigilance and maritime strength 'of th is Country have left him very little commerce to boast of at. all. Another gross folly in his Ex - position is his declaration, that the Code Napoleon has abo lished nolility, while he afterwards prides bimselfon having fortified the throne by the creation of nobi lity. In speaking of criminal laws, he says, they are worse under despotic Governments than among un- . civilized nations; a truth so well known in France,. that it is a wanton insult to the people to remi nd .them of it: Alluding to this Country, be speaks ° L. the institution of Juries, arid condescends to adroit , that in that respea our praCtice is worthy of imita tion. He also finds that it is - a proper Measure t° ' make ; a provision for Judges when disabled by ag e and infirmities ; another point to which he is j °- debted to .this " Nation of. Shopkeepers." But inconsistency - can - only be - equalled by his audacity, when he b6sts of having established an unalterab le peace between the throne and the altar, after having entirely destroyed the head of the Roman Church , the great' authority to which his people look up in all concerns of religion, Referring to the Uolve r ' sides, he shews that he is determined to monoP ° ' lize every species of power in his dominions; f c ' r he says that many disorders were occasioned by !` a want of sufficient authority on the part of'the So ya- reigtk to direct their studies." But the most , dent falsehood in his Exposition is that which r ea lates to the system of commercial restridion he has adopted, and to which he says he was oblige d to resort, in order to oppose just reprisals to i 0 conduat of this Country, declaring that be had re . course to his Decree of the 23d November, h 0 18°It in consequen ce o f out O r d ers of Council of the 11thof the samemonth in the sa me year. N ow t - truth notoriously is, that our Orders of C o uncil °` that date were issued in consequence of his 1 3014° Decree, of November 21, ISO, to blockade Oa British Ports. This is as despicable as it is falls' cions, and sheWs to, what pitiful tricks hc. will refOr t to deceive his unfortunate subjects. He takes car e s however, to tell the world that America has et" tered cordially into all his commercial restriCtionr":, another f:icit too W e ll k nown , s i nce t h e P res id en t the United States has proved so obsequious an strument to him. But according to his usual sY ste ar of gratitude, he rewards Ameri c a by letting 11 1 know that he is ;cultivating I'onticco, and tbA t equals in quality that whiCh she produces. FrenC ° -indirect he says, has. consented to th e a d o p t i on Q f f • taxation. We can easily c om p re h en d w h a t sort °. consent France gives to any. of her Usurper's we e : sures, though it' is got possibl e t o est i mate t h e ester ) .of the indired taxation to which she is subjea': ch-.... His allusions to Spain, a n d hi s apostrop h e to the Spaniards, is the height of impudence and fal se- •. hood. He accuses England of having excited surrection in' Spain, though it is so notor i o us to all the world, that his own conduat towards Spain, and his cruel stratagems to entrap h er R o y a l Faol l/ P produced that burst of national vengeance which ras rendered Spain one of the noblest countries o ° the r earth, and winch it is to be ardently hoped w ill el fetually lead to her freed o m 'and indepe° deticq- But, indeed, the whole of this Exposition is a tissue ) of imposition and falsehood, an d it mu st excite th ° pity of mankind to see the French People reduced t o so low a condition as to be ittlu:.eci with such moo. ery, and yet be obEged to cringe, to flatter, and pr( ) " fess to idolize the man, who, while draining,toe Po pulation of the country to fight the battles 01 v w • ambition, tells them that he is " a:ways pac_iticA and not ambitious of aggrandizing the Empire. CAtALANI . is now performing %via) her usual e 6 at Edinburgh. It •is certain, •we understand, that the Coven t : Carden Company are to- perform at Mr. Cov4At''' Theatre on the Tuesdays and Sat , rdaYs aft e r tUe opeuingof the season for Italian Oprz..,•, and at the King's • Theatte on the "other nights. IittAHAD4 sent a note to the Managers 'of Drurr Lane "Theatre, last night, that he was t( ) L Y hoarse to perform, and an apology was . made for the appearance of Mr. I..SmITH,.as the Mititary.Mitti tro ,; in the. Melo-Drama of St. Quintin, who aiNuri c „himself very well. Another ihietruption was i'cca siotked by the 'absence of the Centinel who' was - la have skid on his post. The poor man imide at) i 1• geniorri apology 'for his want 4 diowsiness t` proper, dramatic situation, and ti,e auOtetiLe leadaY • excused him. The nian's name who was committed Iron) 13 0 ‘" street, on Weoresday, is not Joh n but Robert F en t on He is as yet 'charged with having only three s but there is a certainty of his having a four th ' 31 , p perhaps more. The name of his fir,' and Agri is Mary Pool, to whom be was war, ied a. 1V14 1 '!'"" it ter, but ‘st!llo, has not yet come forw,id. 41- unlikely that there 013 V be six clatualuto.